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Fidel Castro Assumes Power of Cuba
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Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies.
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JKF pledges to not intervene
President Kennedy pledges the U.S. will not intervene militarily to overthrow Castro. -
Bay of Pigs
Backed by the U.S., a group of Cuban exiles invades Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to trigger an anti-Castro rebellion. The invasion fails and more than a thousand Cuban rebels are captured by Castro's forces. -
Cuban Project
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Bay of Pigs
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WWIII Threat By Castro
Castro announces that Cuba is taking measures that would make any direct U.S. attack on Cuba the equivalent of a world war. He claims that the U.S.S.R. has invested greatly in helping defend his country. -
USA learns of missiles in Cuba
A U-2 flying over western Cuba discovers missile sites. Photographs obtained by this flight provide hard evidence that Soviets have missiles in Cuba. -
USSR ships dont go to Cuba
Soviet ships en route to Cuba with questionable cargo either slow down or reverse their course except for one.
Military forces go to DEFCON 2 the highest ever in U.S. history. -
Khrushchev agrees to remove Missiles
Khrushchev announces over Radio Moscow that he has agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba.